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Friday, 23 November 2012

Alexis
Tsipras, leader of main opposition party SYRIZA paid a visit to
Barcelona, invited by the Spanish United Left to attend their
pre-election campaign. Tsipras took the change to express support to the
independence-seeking Catalans and spoke to them in Spanish.

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“ Greece’s
problems are our problems, I want to give many thanks to Alexis giving
hope to Europe. Alexis, you got the word, “said Joan Herrera candidate
of the left party in Catalan elections.
Tsipras in Spanish:
“Thank you very much. Those who say that there is no alternative
solution are wrong. There is. All the people of Europe are the
alternative [solution]. The waking is the alternative, “said Alexis
Tsipras in front of an audience, enthusiastic to hear him speak Spanish.
The
leader of the Greek opposition launched a offensive against the Troika
of the memorandums and loan agreements and against German Chancellor
Angela Merkel, amid cheers of the audience who chanted «Alexis …
Alexis».
However as the Greek media reported about Tsipras in
Barcelona with titles claiming that Alexis Tsipras “supports the
independence of Catalonia” SYRIZA issued an angry statement describing
these claims as ”brazenly lies of the intermingling journalism in
Greece, that SYRIZA supported the secession forces of Catalonia because
Alexis Tsipras appeared at the meeting of “Iniciativa per Catalunya
Verds-Esquerra Unida i Alternativa – ICV- EUiA” (Initiative for
Catalonia Greens-United Left).

This weekend the Spanish region of Catalonia will vote in elections which are widely seen as a referendum on the desire for it to split from Spain.